Edward William Terrick Hamilton (26 November 1809 – 28 September 1898) was a British businessman and politician who spent fifteen years as a pastoralist in New South Wales.
[1][2][3][4] Born in Loughton, Essex, he was the son of the Reverend Anthony Hamilton and his wife Charity, née Farquhar.
[2] Hamilton decided not to take up a legal career, instead choosing to take up "pastoralism" or the raising of livestock in New South Wales, with the aim of making a sufficient fortune to return to England and live as a gentleman of leisure.
[4] In 1839 he purchased a cattle and sheep station near Cassilis, New South Wales with his cousin, Captain H G Hamilton, RN and friend George Clive.
He maintained his links with New South Wales, and was the colony's representative agent in London for some years.